Inside the Shangrila Bus Station 香格里拉汽车客运站
The town of Shangrila wasn’t really very big and it is quite easy to explore it through public transportation. There are three major bus lines here of which one of them passes outside the ancient town of Dukezong. This one is particularly important to me since this brings me back to the Shangrila Bus Station – apparently, this was the same bus station which I initially got off of, though I didn’t recognize it at all. Getting there costs a flat rate of CNY 1. One thing I like about China is that I don’t have to guess how much a public bus costs, if it non air conditioned, it is always CNY 1. If it is air conditioned, it is CNY 2.
Shangrila Bus Station 香格里拉汽车客运站
The Shangrila Bus Station is difficult to miss. It is at the corner of a large intersection, and you would know when everyone starts getting off. The building is surprisingly tall for a bus station, it has the words Shangrila Bus Station on it, in English, Chinese and Tibetan. As it turns out there is a hotel above the bus station. The bus station is your normal Chinese bus station, dark and cramped. This was actually okay with me. But people were smoking inside and I really hate that. It is infuriating that the people who don’t smoke have to stand off to one side just to avoid all these.
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